Other examples of actions speaking louder than words might include the pope's respectful, prayerful visit to the Grand Omayyad Mosque in Damascus in May 2001, not long after the Vatican document Dominus Iesus had asserted that non-Catholics are in a "gravely deficient situation"; or his March 2000 visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem amid acrimonious debates between Jews and Catholics.

The coffin will be carried to Assad's palace compound overlooking the city for an official ceremony, then down the hill to the central Omayyad Circle, containing the national library and other landmark buildings, and on to the white marble al-Shaab or "People's Palace," to lie in state for five hours while visitors pay their last respects.

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